First-Year Composition

The First-Year Composition (FYC) Program at Texas Woman’s University is a unit within the Department of Language, Culture, and Gender Studies (LCGS). The program offers a sequence of two courses required by the Texas Common Core: ENG 1013 (Composition I) and ENG 1023 (Composition II), along with ENG 1003 (Integrated Reading and Writing Corequisite Course). These classes function as a continuum of writing development for TWU students, with a high value placed on sequential coherence and collaboration among students and instructors.

In addition to its core courses, TWU FYC sponsors professional development for instructors; maintains a comprehensive OER textbook; presents on and publishes program research; offers annual teaching awards; facilitates an annual writing awards contest, and collaborates with LCGS faculty to utilize, study and staff the Digital Composition Lab.

In 2024, TWU FYC was one of only three writing programs in the nation to be awarded the prestigious CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence Award. This achievement took considerable work and is attributable, in part, to programmatic innovations in pathways to placement for developmental students, dual credit, and the creation of open-education resource textbooks.

To learn more about the award, read this story published by the TWU College of Arts and Sciences. 

Contact us

If you have questions or comments, please email Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, PhD, at JHElliott@twu.edu.